diff --git a/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/.gitignore b/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/.gitignore
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+/.venv
+/__pycache__
diff --git a/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/README.md b/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/README.md
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+To run this test:
+1. Run `install-rocksdb.sh` (preferably in a docker because it installs to system library) to ensure rocksdb dyn lib are installed
+2. Run `test.py` inside a venv where everything in `requirements.txt` is installed
diff --git a/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/install-rocksdb.sh b/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/install-rocksdb.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash 
+
+set -euox pipefail
+
+ROCKSDB_VERSION=10.5.1
+
+ROCKSDB_SOURCE=`mktemp -d --tmpdir rocksdb-$ROCKSDB_VERSION.XXXXXX`
+trap "rm -rf $ROCKSDB_SOURCE" EXIT
+
+curl -L https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/archive/refs/tags/v${ROCKSDB_VERSION}.tar.gz | tar xz -C $ROCKSDB_SOURCE
+
+cd $ROCKSDB_SOURCE/rocksdb-${ROCKSDB_VERSION}
+
+# NOTE: 
+# `-Wno-unused-parameter` is to fix this error:
+# util/compression.cc:684:40: error: unused parameter ‘args’ [-Werror=unused-parameter]
+# 684 |   Status ExtractUncompressedSize(Args& args) override {
+#     |                                  ~~~~~~^~~~
+EXTRA_CXXFLAGS="-Wno-unused-parameter" make -j$(nproc) install
diff --git a/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/requirements.txt b/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/requirements.txt
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+cffi==2.0.0
+tqdm==4.65
+pycurl==7.45.7
diff --git a/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/rocksdb.py b/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/rocksdb.py
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+from cffi import FFI
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+
+ffi = FFI()
+
+ffi.cdef("""
+typedef struct rocksdb_t rocksdb_t;
+typedef struct rocksdb_options_t rocksdb_options_t;
+typedef struct rocksdb_readoptions_t rocksdb_readoptions_t;
+typedef struct rocksdb_iterator_t rocksdb_iterator_t;
+
+rocksdb_options_t* rocksdb_options_create(void);
+void rocksdb_options_destroy(rocksdb_options_t*);
+void rocksdb_options_set_create_if_missing(rocksdb_options_t*, unsigned char);
+
+rocksdb_t* rocksdb_open(const rocksdb_options_t* options, const char* name, char** errptr);
+void rocksdb_close(rocksdb_t* db);
+
+rocksdb_readoptions_t* rocksdb_readoptions_create(void);
+void rocksdb_readoptions_destroy(rocksdb_readoptions_t*);
+
+rocksdb_iterator_t* rocksdb_create_iterator(rocksdb_t* db, const rocksdb_readoptions_t* options);
+void rocksdb_iter_destroy(rocksdb_iterator_t* iter);
+void rocksdb_iter_seek_to_first(rocksdb_iterator_t* iter);
+unsigned char rocksdb_iter_valid(const rocksdb_iterator_t* iter);
+void rocksdb_iter_next(rocksdb_iterator_t* iter);
+const char* rocksdb_iter_key(const rocksdb_iterator_t* iter, size_t* klen);
+const char* rocksdb_iter_value(const rocksdb_iterator_t* iter, size_t* vlen);
+""")
+
+# Load the library
+rocksdb = ffi.dlopen("librocksdb.so")
+
+@contextmanager
+def rocksdb_options(create_if_missing=False):
+    opts = rocksdb.rocksdb_options_create()
+    rocksdb.rocksdb_options_set_create_if_missing(opts, int(create_if_missing))
+    try:
+        yield opts
+    finally:
+        rocksdb.rocksdb_options_destroy(opts)
+
+@contextmanager
+def open_db(path, options):
+    err_ptr = ffi.new("char**")
+    db = rocksdb.rocksdb_open(options, path.encode('utf-8'), err_ptr)
+    if err_ptr[0] != ffi.NULL:
+        raise RuntimeError("Open error: " + ffi.string(err_ptr[0]).decode())
+    try:
+        yield db
+    finally:
+        rocksdb.rocksdb_close(db)
+
+@contextmanager
+def read_iter(db):
+    ropts = rocksdb.rocksdb_readoptions_create()
+    iter_ = rocksdb.rocksdb_create_iterator(db, ropts)
+    try:
+        yield iter_
+    finally:
+        rocksdb.rocksdb_iter_destroy(iter_)
+        rocksdb.rocksdb_readoptions_destroy(ropts)
+
+def test(path, rounds):
+    """
+    Iterate over a RocksDB database and print key-value pairs in hexadecimal.
+
+    Args:
+        path (str): Path to the RocksDB database.
+        rounds (int): Number of key-value pairs to read from the start of the database.
+
+    Behavior:
+        - Opens the database in read-only mode (does not create a new DB).
+        - Uses a RocksDB iterator to traverse from the first key.
+        - Prints each key-value pair as hexadecimal strings.
+        - Stops early if the iterator reaches the end of the DB before 'rounds' entries.
+    """
+    with rocksdb_options(create_if_missing=False) as opts, open_db(path, opts) as db, read_iter(db) as it:
+        rocksdb.rocksdb_iter_seek_to_first(it)
+        for _ in range(rounds):
+            if not rocksdb.rocksdb_iter_valid(it):
+                break
+
+            klen = ffi.new("size_t*")
+            vlen = ffi.new("size_t*")
+            key_ptr = rocksdb.rocksdb_iter_key(it, klen)
+            val_ptr = rocksdb.rocksdb_iter_value(it, vlen)
+
+            key_buf = ffi.buffer(key_ptr, klen[0])
+            val_buf = ffi.buffer(val_ptr, vlen[0])
+            print(f"Found KV-pair: {key_buf[:].hex()} -> {val_buf[:].hex()}")
+
+            rocksdb.rocksdb_iter_next(it)
diff --git a/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/test.py b/scripts/rocksdb-compatibility/test.py
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+import os
+import random
+import tarfile
+import tempfile
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
+from io import BytesIO
+from typing import List
+from urllib.parse import urljoin
+
+import pycurl
+from tqdm import tqdm
+
+import rocksdb
+
+NUM_LEDGER_TARS = 5
+NUM_KV_PER_LEDGER = 10
+
+# Match keys starting with "genesis_ledger" or "epoch_ledger" and ending with ".tar.gz"
+def matches_pattern(key: str) -> bool:
+    return (key.startswith("genesis_ledger") or key.startswith("epoch_ledger")) and key.endswith(".tar.gz")
+
+
+def download_file(url: str, dest_path: str) -> None:
+    with open(dest_path, "wb") as f:
+        # Create a progress bar (tqdm)
+        pbar = tqdm(unit="B", unit_scale=True, unit_divisor=1024, ncols=80)
+
+        def progress(download_t, download_d, _upload_t, _upload_d):
+            _ = (_upload_t, _upload_d) # Make pyright happier
+            if download_t > 0:
+                pbar.total = download_t
+                pbar.update(download_d - pbar.n)
+
+        c = pycurl.Curl()
+        c.setopt(pycurl.URL, url)
+        c.setopt(pycurl.WRITEDATA, f)
+        c.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, True)
+        c.setopt(pycurl.NOPROGRESS, False)
+        c.setopt(pycurl.XFERINFOFUNCTION, progress)
+        c.perform()
+        c.close()
+
+        pbar.close()
+
+
+def extract_tar_gz(tar_path: str, target_dir: str) -> None:
+    with tarfile.open(tar_path, "r:gz") as tar:
+        tar.extractall(path=target_dir)
+
+# TODO: figure out how to enable SSL here
+def list_s3_keys(url, matches_pattern) -> List[str] :
+    buffer = BytesIO()
+    c = pycurl.Curl()
+    c.setopt(pycurl.URL, url)
+    c.setopt(pycurl.WRITEDATA, buffer)
+    c.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, True)
+    c.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYPEER, False)
+    c.setopt(pycurl.SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0)
+    c.perform()
+    status_code = c.getinfo(pycurl.RESPONSE_CODE)
+    c.close()
+
+    if status_code != 200:
+        raise RuntimeError(f"Failed to list S3 bucket: {status_code}")
+
+    data = buffer.getvalue()
+    root = ET.fromstring(data)
+    ns = {"s3": "http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/"}
+    tar_keys = [
+        text
+        for elem in root.findall(".//s3:Contents/s3:Key", ns)
+        if (text := elem.text) is not None and matches_pattern(text)
+    ]
+    return tar_keys
+
+def main():
+    tar_keys = list_s3_keys("https://snark-keys.o1test.net.s3.amazonaws.com/", matches_pattern)
+
+    if not tar_keys:
+        raise RuntimeError("No ledger tar files found.")
+
+    for tar_key in random.sample(tar_keys, min(NUM_LEDGER_TARS, len(tar_keys))):
+        tar_uri = urljoin("https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/snark-keys.o1test.net/", tar_key)
+        print(f"Testing RocksDB compatibility on {tar_uri}")
+
+        with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmpdir:
+            tar_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, os.path.basename(tar_key))
+            print(f"  Downloading to {tar_path}...")
+            download_file(tar_uri, tar_path)
+
+            db_path = os.path.join(tmpdir, "extracted")
+            os.makedirs(db_path, exist_ok=True)
+            print(f"  Extracting to {db_path}...")
+            extract_tar_gz(tar_path, db_path)
+
+            print(f"  Testing extracted RocksDB at {db_path}")
+            rocksdb.test(db_path, NUM_KV_PER_LEDGER)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()